Mark Jackson made the radio rounds Wednesday, generally taking the high road while trying to provide closure a day after being fired as the Warriors' head coach.

"People think it's a sad day, but it's a great day," Jackson told SiriusXM NBA Radio. "I'm at peace. I'm comfortable. ... I'm grateful to the players, to the organization and to the fans.

"Three years ago, they gave me an opportunity. The question today is no longer: 'Can I coach?' I'm truly thankful for the platform that they created for me. Now we move on, and we can move on like grown folks."

Despite some offensive lulls that were lengthened by stretches of isolation play, hockey-line substitution patterns and a tendency to wait too long to call timeouts, there wasn't much to dislike about Jackson's on-court results.

Warriors owner Joe Lacob said the Jackson firing had more to do with "organizational issues" than on-court performance. The Warriors cited Jackson's unwillingness to move to the Bay Area, friction with management and sketchy dealings with assistant coaches among reasons that led to the firing.

"It can simply be: 'I own the team, I run the team, and I want to go another way.' Don't make it something it's not - especially if you never asked me to move, especially if I never had bad relationships," Jackson said. "At the end of the day, like Tina Turner, just let me leave with my name. That's all."

Jackson disputed reports that he banned executive board member Jerry West from practices and that he had issues with assistant general manager Kirk Lacob, Joe's son, who called the former coach and left a message of appreciation Tuesday night. Jackson said he wished he would have acted sooner in dismissing assistant coaches Brian Scalabrine and Darren Erman and shouldered the blame for hiring them in the first place.

After guiding the Warriors to consecutive winning seasons for the first time since 2006-08, back-to-back playoff berths for the first time since 1990-92 and two straight 45-plus-win seasons for the first time since 1975-77, Jackson believes he'll get another chance to coach one day.

As for the guy who has to follow him at Golden State, Jackson offered a warning about management's expectations in light of his own tenure.

"If that's not enough, then it's championship time," Jackson said. "It's tough. You can't go from a guy who cared about you, loved you, showered you with affection, told you the truth, held you accountable and respected you to now, all of a sudden, a brand of coaching that is cussing you out and disrespecting you. Then, you better get a brand new group" of players.